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The ''Star Trek'' film series is the cinematic branch of the ''Star Trek'' media franchise, which began in 1966 as a weekly television series on NBC, running for three seasons until it was canceled in 1969 because of poor ratings. Reruns of the series proved to be wildly successful in syndication during the 1970s, which persuaded the series' then-owner, Paramount Pictures, to expand the franchise. Paramount originally began work on a ''Star Trek'' feature film in 1975 after lobbying by the creator of the franchise, Gene Roddenberry. The studio scrapped the project two years later in favor of creating a television series, ''Star Trek: Phase II'', with the original cast. However, following the huge success of ''Star Wars'' and ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', Paramount changed its mind again, halting production on the television series and adapting its pilot episode into the 1979 ''Star Trek'' feature film, ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture''. Five more films featuring the entire original cast followed. The cast of the 1987–1994 spin-off series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' starred in a further four films. After a 7-year hiatus, a new film was released in 2009, simply titled ''Star Trek'', serving as a reboot to the franchise with a new cast portraying younger versions of the original series' characters. A sequel to ''Star Trek'' (2009), ''Star Trek Into Darkness'', was released in theaters in May 2013. A second sequel, ''Star Trek Beyond'', will be released in July 2016, which will be on the franchise's 50th anniversary. The ''Star Trek'' films have received 15 Academy Award nominations. ''Star Trek'' (2009) won for Best Makeup and Hairstyling in 2010, and four of the previous films were nominated mainly in the areas of makeup, music, set design and sound design. The early ''Star Trek'' films, the first to tenth film, were originally released on VHS; competitive pricing of ''The Wrath of Khan''s videocassette helped bolster the adoption of VHS players in households. Later films were also released on LaserDisc as well. For those films that did not receive an initial DVD release, Paramount released simple one-disc versions with no special features. Later, the first ten films were released in two-disc collector's versions, with ''The Motion Picture'' and ''The Wrath of Khan'' branded as "director's cuts", followed by later box set releases. All of the films are now available on Blu-ray, digital download, streaming media and video on demand. ==Development== ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry first suggested the idea of a ''Star Trek'' feature in 1969.〔Reeves-Stevens, 155-158.〕 When the original television series was cancelled, he lobbied to continue the franchise through a film. The success of the series in syndication convinced the studio to begin work on a feature film in 1975. A series of writers attempted to craft a suitably epic script, but the attempts did not satisfy Paramount, so the studio scrapped the project in 1977. Paramount instead planned on returning the franchise to its roots with a new television series, ''Star Trek: Phase II''. The massive worldwide box office success of ''Star Wars'' in mid-1977 sent Hollywood studios to their vaults in search of similar sci-fi properties that could be adapted or re-launched to the big screen. When Columbia's ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' enjoyed a huge opening in late December 1977, Paramount was convinced that science fiction films other than ''Star Wars'' could do very well at the box office, so the studio canceled production of ''Phase II'' and resumed its attempts at making a ''Star Trek'' film. Principal photography for ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'' commenced August 7, 1978〔Sackett & Roddenberry, 1–3.〕 with director Robert Wise helming the feature. The production encountered difficulties and slipped behind schedule. Paramount had approached Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra to handle the film's optical effects, but each was busy or unwilling.〔Shay (1980), 4.〕 The production instead went with Robert Abel and Associates,〔Sackett & Roddenberry, 202–203.〕 who proved unable to handle the film's large amount of effects work. Trumbull was hired and given a blank check to complete the effects work in time;〔Sackett & Roddenberry, 204–205.〕 the final cut of the film was completed just in time for the film's premiere in Washington, D.C. The film introduced an upgrade to the technology and starship designs, making for a dramatic visual departure from the original series. The starship ''Enterprise'' was "refitted" with a modernized design, both exterior and interior. Many of the set elements created for the earlier aborted "Phase II" television series were adapted and enhanced for use in the first feature film. The film received mixed reviews from critics; while it grossed $82,258,456, the film's price tag had climbed to about $35 million due to costly effects work and delays. ;The "Curse" Fans commonly considered the films to follow a "curse" that even-numbered films were better than the odd-numbered installments. The tenth film, ''Nemesis'', was considered the even film that defied the curse.〔 The failure of ''Nemesis'' and subsequent success of ''Star Trek'' (2009) is considered to have broken the trend, though some have tried to uphold the trend, either by counting the parody ''Galaxy Quest'' as an "honorary" ''Star Trek'' film, by using the sum of the digits as an indicator, or by referring to the 2009 reboot as ''Star Trek 0'' due to it being set before the others.〔TV Tropes: (Star Trek Movie Curse )〕 The curse is well enough known that it has been mentioned often in pop culture. One of the best known examples occurred in a 1999 episode of the Channel 4 sitcom ''Spaced'', where it was referenced by Tim Bisley, played by Simon Pegg: Pegg, quite conscious of the irony, played Scotty in the reboot films. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star Trek (film series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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